Chapter 2148 Tutu Department
Bai Shan's eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled and said, "There's very little salt. You know, we can only bring enough salt for us to eat. We did bring some tea..."
So the two sides came closer and stood on the hillside and started talking.
The herdsmen wanted to buy some tea from them, and some kept looking at the backpack on Zhou Man's back. The leading herdsman couldn't help but ask, "Is there a doctor in your caravan who knows about herbal medicine?"
Manbao smiled and said, "Yes, I know some medical skills. Why, do you have any patients?"
"You're a doctor? Do you know the recipe for smallpox? I heard that Xiazhou posted the recipe on the city gate."
Manbao: ...It's not posted on the city gate, but it has never been concealed, and it will be promoted to the doctors.
After all, this is medication, and it must be approved by a doctor before it can be prescribed. Otherwise, if the prescription is posted, anyone can write it down. Then, when they get sick, they don’t see a doctor, but judge the condition themselves and take the medicine themselves. What if they take the wrong medicine?
Manbao asked them, "Do you still have smallpox patients?"
Seeing that they weren't afraid of smallpox, the herdsman felt a little more convinced. He said, "No, but we need a prescription. The gods said that if smallpox breaks out once, it will definitely recur next year, so we want to prepare some herbs in advance."
After all, no one knows whether the court will send them medicine next year. Even if it does, no one knows whether it will be enough, and the back and forth will always take a lot of time.
Last year, some people fell ill in the twelfth month, but the medicine was not delivered until the first month of the lunar year. Many people died in their tribe, and the medicine was not very effective. They all said that it was because they took the medicine too late. If people took medicine as soon as they fell ill, many of them would be cured.
The herdsmen stared at Zhou Man with sharp eyes. Someone felt something was wrong. A young man at the back squeezed up and whispered in the ear of the leader.
The leading herdsman couldn't help but turn his head and stare at Manbao.
Manbao and Baishan felt a little nervous when he looked at them, and their hands holding each other couldn't help but tighten. Daji also quietly took a step forward and stood on the other side of Manbao, only half a step behind them.
"You..." The herdsman looked Zhou Man up and down, finally landing on her eyes, "Do you know someone named Zhou Liang?"
When Bai Shan heard that his surname was Zhou, he turned around and asked Man Bao, "Do you know him?"
Manbao: "...My fourth brother, don't you know him?"
The herdsman's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "Oh my!" "So you are Brother Zhou's sister. I know you. Brother Zhou said you are the imperial physician, a doctor who specializes in treating the emperor. You are very good."
Manbao's eyes lit up as well, and he said in surprise, "You know my fourth brother."
"Yes, yes. Two years ago and last year, he bought a lot of furs and cattle from our tribe. He also sold us a lot of tea and porcelain." The herdsman relaxed and asked curiously, "Aren't you the imperial physician?"
Manbao nodded and said, "Yes, but I'm traveling and studying now. You want a prescription for smallpox, but do you know how to diagnose smallpox?"
Manbao changed the subject and said to them, "Smallpox is easily confused with common pox and high fever. It is especially important in the early stages to avoid taking the wrong medicine. You must first learn to identify whether it is smallpox before using smallpox medicine."
The herders listened attentively, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Can you teach us? We can pay you."
Manbao thought for a moment and then smiled, "I don't want money. Do you know the wild antelopes on the grassland?"
The herdsmen all shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know.
"Do you want sheep? We have some. We'll give you as many as you want."
Manbao paused and said, "I just want wild antelope."
She looked at Bai Shan, and Bai Shan took out a small notebook and a very thin pen from his arms. The pen had a rope connected to a small bamboo tube about the length of a finger.
He opened the bamboo tube and handed it to Manbao, who held it for him. He opened the pen, dipped it in a little ink, and started drawing on the book. Soon, a vivid wild antelope appeared on the paper.
He showed it to the herdsmen.
The herders exclaimed, "We know this. There are a lot of wild sheep over there. They are too skinny and not tasty. They are not as tasty as the sheep we raise."
The herdsmen strongly recommended the sheep they raised, saying that if Zhou Man was willing to teach them, they would be willing to reward her with a lot of sheep.
Manbao smiled and said, "I'm not going to eat them. I want them for research, so I want them alive. Can you help me catch two live antelopes?"
"We caught the antelope, so will you teach us how to identify smallpox?"
Manbao nodded.
The herdsman patted his chest and agreed, then led them down the hillside and said, "You go to see our chief."
Their tribe has a witch, and they cannot learn this kind of thing, but the witch and the tribe leader should be able to learn it, they are smart.
Manbao and Baishan nodded, and rode their horses with them towards the tribe which had already walked a distance.
The tribal leader was waiting. He had received the report earlier, so he let them go first and left behind with a few people.
He was still a little wary at first, but when he saw them standing on the hillside and talking from a distance, and they didn't look like they were going to fight, and there were only three of them, he relaxed and didn't rush to leave. He slowly strolled forward with the tribesmen.
Seeing them coming down, he and his men stopped.
A herdsman was running in front and dismounted to whisper to him. When Manbao and the others arrived, the tribe leader had already smiled and came to greet them enthusiastically.
The patriarch looked to be in his forties, with a thick beard that covered half of his face. Because of his age, Manbao and Baishan subconsciously showed him more respect.
Both parties have feelings for each other and the communication is very smooth.
So the migration stopped temporarily, and they planned to stay there. The herdsmen set up a big tent at a very fast speed, and the witch quickly brought two children over.
The tribe leader enthusiastically introduced their witch doctor to Manbao in Chinese, and then said to the witch doctor in their tribal language: "This Miss Zhou is Zhou Silang's sister, the imperial physician who treated the emperor. You should learn the skills of treating smallpox from her, and you must learn them completely."
Although he spoke quickly and his language was a little different from the Hu language they had learned, Manbao and Baishan still understood about 70% of what he said: ...
The two remained silent.
The herdsmen on the side were hesitant to speak, wanting to tell their chief that they could speak Hu language, but it seemed too late to say it now, and it might even embarrass the chief, so they became distressed, not knowing whether they should say it or not.
The clan leader didn't give them a chance. After talking to Wu, he stared at Zhou Man with a sharp gaze and said, "You guys should teach them now."
Wu Chong Manbao smiled politely. He looked much younger than the clan leader, only about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and about the same age as Yang Heshu.
His Chinese was even more standard than the clan leader's. He bowed slightly to greet Manbao and introduced himself, "My name is Gulu."
Bai Shan took the opportunity to ask, "My name is Bai Shan, and I don't know the name of your tribe yet."
The witch smiled and said, "Our tribe is called the Tutu tribe."
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